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Nineteen tales of New Hampshire small town life make up Rebecca Rule’s 1995 book “Best Revenge: Short Stories”. Some make you laugh, others leave a tear in your eye; some explore the comical uniqueness and subtleties of Granite State life, others everyday hardships. There’s a fine line between humor and tragedy, and in “Best Revenge”, Rebecca Rule walks it well. We’ll explore the lighter and darker sides of New Hampshire with Rebecca Rule and her book “Best Revenge” as we conclude this year's Granite State Stories.

Guest

• Rebecca Rule, author of "Best Revenge: Short Stories"

Getting tough on Sex Offenders...after their sentence is served. A small but growing number of New Hampshire towns are limiting the number of places where registered sex offenders can live: away from schools, parks, or anywhere else children might congregate. We’ll look at the debate over how fair...and how effective...these ordinances are.

Guests

• Janice Lindbloom, Concerned parent in Northfield. She helped get the town to pass tougher ordinances on where sex offenders can live.
• Barbara Keshen, Staff Attorney for the NH Civil Liberties Union and a member of the NH Public Defender’s Office.

We'll Also Hear From

• Anthony Colarusso, Chief of Police for the City of Dover
• David Finkelhor, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Crimes against Children Research Center at UNH

We look at what happens next, as the latest iteration of a constitutional amendment on education falls into a kind of limbo, as restaurants and bars prepare for a new statewide smoking ban, as primary politics heats up and as a supreme court deadline to define adequacy in education reaches t-minus one week and counting.

Guests

• Tom Fahey, State House Bureau Chief for the New Hampshire Union Leader and Sunday News
• Kevin Landrigan, State House Reporter for the Telegraph of Nashua
• Josh Rogers, State House Reporter for NHPR

Present-day Iraq represents a volatile mixture of the forces of religion and nationalism. The major groups, the Sunni, Shia and Kurds are locked in a sharply divided contest over the definition of national identity and the distribution of national power, as well as the control of territory. This struggle in Iraq shows symptoms of religious nationalism. A new book compares the experience in Iraq to other cases, like Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sri Lanka and Sudan, where religion and nationalism have come together in a lethal way and tries to see how ethnicity and religion compete to define national ideals.

Guest

• David Little, Visiting Professor of the Practice in Religion, Ethnicity and International Conflict at Harvard Divinity School, Faculty Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and co-editor of “Religion and Nationalism in Iraq: A Comparative Perspective”.

The accidental release at Concord Hospital of over 9,000 patients’ records, including personal information like social security numbers, is only the latest in a series of security breaches in New Hampshire, including TJ Maxx and BJ’s Wholesale Club. In an increasingly technology and internet oriented society, is identity theft more prevalent or is it just more widely reported under new standards of law? We’ll get an idea of how big the problem is or isn’t, what the laws are and what you can do about it.

Guests

• David Gottesman, a Senator from Nashua, Deputy Democratic Whip and Chair of the Commerce, Labor and Consumer Protection Committee. In 2003, as a lawyer, he represented the estate of 20-year-old Amy Boyer in a lawsuit against an internet-based information broker who sold her information to a stalker, who subsequently killed her and then himself.
• Lauren Noether, Bureau Chief for the NH Consumer Protection & Antitrust Bureau at the Attorney General’s Office with 22 years of prosecutorial experience.
• Peter Wright, Director of Clinical Programs, Consumer and Commercial Law Clinic at Franklin Pierce Law Center

We'll also hear from

• Michael Green, Concord Hospital President and CEO